Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrier and land-based forces were able to do to such an invasion when the Japs tried to take Midway. To the north there is a temporary security which rests on the virtual certainty that Russia would not be willing to let the U.S. move on Japan over her soil-at least until after the defeat of Hitler. To the west, the mass of China could well base hostile air and land forces, but China is of limited use to Japan's enemies until they own Burma, and the stalemated minor campaign there indicates that that...
There are now more soldiers and sailors than undergraduates around the University, because of the eight specialized schools now in training here. Everything from WAVES to Marines grace Cambridge's streets, and representatives of countless branches from the Chaplains to soil experts can be spotted around the Yard. Research projects have taken up many of the University's laboratories--but beyond the fact that they exist, little is publicly known about them...
...electronics school, Navy communication and indoctrination unit, Army Chaplains School, 25 Army engineers studying soil characteristics as it affects airport construction, "rough-and-ready" navigation being taught the Army's Amphibian Engineers, the Air Force Statistical School, and two groups 'earning about surgical and tropical medicine at the Medical School bring Harvard's armed population to a figure approximating...
...Gramicidin, a drug extracted from soil bacteria and easily confused with penicillin, is also recommended as a wound dressing but is extremely dangerous if it gets into the blood stream...
They know that Germany failed in the first great application of independent air power (against Britain). But they argue that Germany came with too little and that its little was stopped, perilously close to success, by independent air power from British soil, i.e., the R.A.F. Fighter Command. Yet by events and the utterances of Army ground generals they see only waning hope that an all-out air theater will be established in this...